Blue Badge Scheme

(asked on 22nd February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will widen the Blue Badge criteria to allow for cognitive as well as physical disabilities.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 1st March 2016

The regulations governing the scheme already apply to any permanent and substantial disability which causes very considerable difficulty in walking. We have no plans to widen the scope beyond this.

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